Quotes About Opportunity

Small businesses are the lifeblood of our economy.

I like to go for cinches. I like to shoot fish in a barrel. But I like to do it after the water has run out.

Always remember the famous adage about the movie business: You can't make a living, you can only get rich.

[On filmmaking:] Cardinal rule: It's a youth business.

Ideas are easy. I've never met a single person who didn't think they had a world class idea. The hard part is making it a business.

Sometimes you buy the horse, sometimes you invest in the jockey. It really comes down to the actual business and the upside.

Business is the marketplace of ideas.

There is very little knowledge that can't be obtained through effort. With knowledge you can determine the state of any business or opportunity and find a course to gain an advantage.

Brains are far more important than money or connections. Everyone and anyone can create a business out of their bedroom.

My show business career doesn't mean I can't write a symphony. It just means I was never asked to write one.

I decided to start my own label because so many people with talent come to me wanting to know how they can get in the music business.

There are many programs specifically aimed at helping people in poverty start a business.

When a small business grows like eBay did, it has a multiplier effect. It creates other small businesses that supply it with intellectual capital, goods and services.

Well, California used to be in the dream-making business, and unfortunately what's happened I think we're now in the dream-breaking business.

As an actor you have to wait for someone to cast you, so you're relying on the business.

Innovation implies high risk, and with high risk comes failure, so you've got to be prepared for that, but if you don't risk, then your business goes stale very quickly.

Estimates show that small businesses contribute 60-80 percent of the net new jobs annually.

Small business is where jobs come from. Two-thirds of our jobs come from small businesses.

But in the business I had, we invested in over 100 different businesses and net-net, taking out the ones where we lost jobs and those that we added, those businesses have now added over 100,000 jobs.

During the gold rush its a good time to be in the pick and shovel business

Where there is a risk, there is a wealth.

I sensed my chance and embraced the telecom business. I started marketing telephones, answering/fax machines under the brand name Beetel, and the company picked up really fast.

I am here not to save money but to make more of it.

You need money to make money is nonsense! Entrepreneur people who started with nothing but an idea.